Street-car



(No Model.)

P. B. BROWNELL.

STREET OAR. No. 247,607. Patented Sept. 27,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK B. BROWNELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

STREET-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,607, dated September 27, 1881.

Application filed June 10, 1881. (No mddel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. BROWN- ELL, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Passenger -Vehicles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification. g i

Myimprovementconsistsin constructing the body of a. passenger-vehicle beneath the sashrail or windows open, and combining therewith removable shutters or screens.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of one end of a car in condition for winter use, the side aperture being closed by a shutter. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the car in condition for summeruse, the side aperture being guarded by a wire screen. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at mm, Fig. 4. Fig. 4. is an inside view of part of the wall of a winter car. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section at w m, Fig. 6. Fig. 6 is an inside view of a catch by which the shutterisheldin position, (at thelower edge.) Fig. 7 is a vertical section at :0 09 Fig. 8. Fig. 8. is an inside view of part of a summer-car wall. Fig. 9 is an enlarged section at 00 x Fig. 8. Fig. 10 is a horizontal section at 00 00 Fig. 9.

The sides of the car are shown at A. The sides have apertures at B, preferably extending from the guard-rail U to the window-rail D, and from end to end of the car.

In cold or rainy weather the aperture may be closed by a close shutter, S, while in warm weather the aperture is guarded by a wire screen, S, with a curtain outside the same,when

the weather requires it.

The shutter and the screen are made to fill the aperture B, and are held in place by any suitable fastening. I show the upper edge entering a groove or channel in the bottom of the window-rail D.

In the case of the shutter S, I have used buttons or latches F inclosed within the upright battens G, whose points f en gage in slots 0 in the sides of the uprights E. These buttons have an angular key-hole in the hub for the reception of the point of a key by which the button is turned. For the buttons F may be substituted any suitable fastening. It will be seen that the buttons are located near the lower edge of the shutter, the upper edge being held in the groove aforesaid. This groove I have made by the attachment of a metallic strip, H, the lower edge of the strip extending below the part of the rail in proximity to it.

The upper edge of the wire-work (or other open-work) screen S may be held in the same manner as the shutter S.

The lower part of the screen I have secured by hooks F, which engage on studs 6 projecting from the sides of the studs E. Any other suitable fastenings may be used in place of the strip H and hooks F.

I have described theimprovement as applied to the side of a convertible street-car; but it may be applied to the ends also.

I prefer to use, in conjunction with the screen S, a curtain of rubber, duck,or other material, attached by its upper edge above the screen, or to the top of the same, and having its lower edge attached to a roller, on which it is rolled up in fine weather.

The im provementis applicable chiefly to cars having sashes that open by sliding or swinging upward, for sashes that open downward would extend across the aperture B when they were open.

I am aware that car-bodies have been provided with removable window and side frames, to be replaced in part by open screens. Such I do not claim, as it is not my invention and a construction incompatible with my device.

I claim as'my invention 1. A passenger-vehicle constructed open beneath the window-rail and adapted to receive a shutter or screen, as set forth.

2. Thecombination, with aguard-raiLQand window-rail D, having a groove or channel lengthwise thereof, of a removable shutter or screen having suitable securing devices, as set forth.

3. The sashes I, adapted to slide upwardly, and a shutter, S, adapted to be removed and replaced by a screen, in combination with horizontal guard and window rails (J and D, as set forth.

FREDERICK B. BROWNELL. 

